Ratan Bera
Postdoctoral Associate
- Ph.D., 2018, Physiscs, Institute for Plasma Research, India
- M.S., 2012, Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
- B.Sc., 2010, Physics, University of Calcutta, India

Aerospace & Ocean Engineering (MC0203)
Randolph Hall Annex, RM 107
460 Old Turner Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Randolph Hall Annex, RM 107
460 Old Turner Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
- High energy density plasma physics (laser/beam-plasma interation, plasma based accelerators & inertial confinement fusion)
- Fluid- and particle-in-cell (PIC)- simulation
- Numerical methods and algorithms
- 2015, PSSI Poster Award at National Symposium on Plasma Science & Technology, SINP, Kolkata, India
- 2014, PSSI Poster Award at National Symposium on Plasma Science & Technology, Kerala, India
- 2019 - Present, Postdoctoral research associate, Virginia Tech
- 2019, Postdoctoral fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
- 2018-2019, Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Plasma Research, India